...Introduction In recent years, the idea of predictive policing, or the use of statistics and data to make policing decisions, has become widely popular in the United States. As police departments faced reduced budgets, improving efficiency in how they work to prevent crime is of great importance (Goode, 2011). However, predictive policing also create a focus on accountability, which has caused some police officers to respond negatively to such pressures (Willis, Mastrofski & Weisburd, 2003). The purpose of this paper is to briefly examine predictive policing and how tools such as COMPSTAT allow police departments to respond more efficiently to criminal activity. Information Technology vs. Random Patrols Before discussing specific issues involving the use of COMPSTAT as part of predictive policing, it is important to compare and contrast the use of information technology as a way of optimizing police department performance with the more traditional use of random street patrols. The use of information technology applications and performing random street patrols are actually similar because both methods of identifying and responding to crime are intended to examine the events and conditions that exist in a particular area so that criminal activity can be prevented before it actually occurs (Bratton & Malinowski, 2008). In essence, regardless of whether information technology applications or random street patrols are used, the overall goal is to be positioned in a way that...
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...About every 23 seconds, a violent crime has been committed. About every 3 seconds a property crime has been committed. Because these crimes happen so often, we need to find a way to stop them from happening. In an article www.sciencenews.org written by Rachel Ehrenberg on March 9th, 2017 called Data-Driven Crime Prediction Fails to Erase Human Bias states that some ways are not always the best ways. In the years since 2011, predictive policy has been used in over 20 cities including Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Predictive policy shows data of where a future crime might occur and who might be involved. Many law enforcement agencies use this tool. However, these tools show that it could unfairly flag people because of where they...
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...Business Analytics, and Predictive Analytics LaShonda Spell Prof. S. Mirajkar CIS 356 Operating a successful business today involves utilizing the correct tools to make the best decisions for that business. The main tools that are used for making critical business decisions are DSS, DDS, BI, Business Analytics and Predictive Analytics systems. The concepts/ systems mentioned assist management in the major decision-making processes by providing crucial operational data in comprehensible formats for monitoring/ reviewing and analyzing. Making the best decisions regarding business operations determine the success or failure of the company and ensures that all business strategies are implemented and effective. In this essay, there is a brief overview of the similarities/ differences, methodologies/ technologies and evaluation of the capabilities of DDS, BI, Business Analytics and Predictive Analytics systems. Similarities and Differences among DDS, BI, Business Analytics, and Predictive Analytics regarding business scope/origins /histories/ methodologies/ technologies DDS (Data Distribution Service) are data communications based on the standards managed by the OMG (Object Management Group). The standards set by the OMG of DDS describe different latency levels of data communications for distributed applications (Twin Oaks Computing, Inc., 2011). DDS standard support data defining applications, dynamic publishing/ subscribing discovery and QoS policy configuration. DDS also...
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...call-for-speaker notifications Email Address: All speakers: Please read this call for speakers in its entirety before proceeding to the speaker proposal form (below). Software vendors: If you are a software vendor, read this restriction on speaking. Join Predictive Analytics World (PAW) for Manufacturing to share how predictive analytics delivers a business impact for your organization. PAW Manufacturing is the only conference of its kind, with sessions and content reaching: Across business applications - For what purpose is predictive analytics deployed? Across vendors of solutions and software - How is predictive analytics deployed? Dedicated to the Manufacturing Industry Please read more about the scope, objective and target audience of this conference on the about, FAQ and attendee demograpics pages. Present Your Case Studies PAW Manufacturing provides speakers the opportunity to present predictive analytics case studies, deployment successes and lessons learned. At this event, potential consumers of predictive analytics witness proof demonstrating it's more than just a bunch of great ideas - predictive analytics is actively applied to optimize many business functions across industry verticals. And predictive analytics practitioners have the opportunity to gain from the lessons you've learned, whether by serendipity, or - more likely - the hard way. Evaluation - how well did it work? Case study proposals will be given highest consideration if specific measurements...
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...Jordan BIS/220 Mai Nguyen October 17, 2011 Information technology has greatly advanced through the years. For the most part, these advancements are beneficial to consumers, however, the advancements have also made it necessary for the government to step in to create acts in order to set restrictions and help protect consumers’ rights. Two of the acts implemented are the Children’s Internet Protection Act, 2000 and the Do Not Call Implementation Act, 2003. The Children’s Internet Protection Act, 2000 is a federal law that requires schools and libraries to certify that they have an Internet safety policy that takes measures to block or filter Internet access to pictures that are obscene or child pornographic and, for computers that are accessible to minors, pictures that are harmful to minors. Schools and libraries are also required to implement an Internet safety policy which addresses minors’ access to inappropriate matter, minors’ use of electronic mail and chat rooms, unauthorized access by minors online, disclosure of personal information regarding minors, and minors’ access to harmful materials. Also, schools are required to monitor online activities of minors (Federal Communications Commission Guide, 2011). The advances in information technology that resulted in the Children’s Internet Protection Act, 2000 are the popularity of the Internet and the ease of access to share information through this source. The Internet is a gateway to endless information for its...
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...Defining Recession A recession is a contraction phase of the business cycle where significant decline in economic activity lasts more than a few months, which is normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. Global Prospective The current economic recession has hardly spared any country on earth. Rich countries like USA, UK, Germany, Australia, Japan, Canada- almost all the rich countries have got badly hurt from the recession. So, there is no reason to be surprised to know that Indian economy is also getting hurt from the global economic recession. Impact of Recession on Indian Economy The following graph shows the changing trend over the Years in all the major sectors which contributes the overall development of the Indian Economy • Low or No Appraisals • Salary Cuts • Layoffs • Less Hiring's • Minimal projects in hand • Declining share in global market • No Plans for Greenfield projects • No diversification or expansion Present Scenario • As per a survey of 480 Indian companies over December 2008 and January 2009 conducted by hr consultancy firm Hewitt - despite the economic slowdown, a majority of Indian companies are still hiring employees. Here are some interesting revelations of this survey • Average salary hike in India in 2009 will be 8.2% (the highest in the Asia pacific region however first time in six years that India is likely to see...
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...SGX543MP2 | MEMORY | Card slot | No | | Internal | 16/32/64 GB, 512 MB RAM | CAMERA | Primary | 0.7 MP, 960 x 720 pixels | | Features | No | | Video | 720p@30fps, check quality | | Secondary | VGA | SOUND | Alert types | N/A | | Loudspeaker | Yes | | 3.5mm jack | Yes | COMMS | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band | | Bluetooth | v2.1, A2DP, EDR | | GPS | Yes, with A-GPS | | Radio | No | | USB | v2.0 | FEATURES | Sensors | Accelerometer, gyro, compass | | Messaging | iMessage, Email, Push Email, IM | | Browser | HTML (Safari) | | Java | No | | | - iCloud cloud service - Maps - Audio/video player/editor - Photo viewer/editor - Voice memo - TV-out - Document viewer - Predictive text input | BATTERY | | Non-removable Li-Po 6930 mAh battery (25 Wh) | | Stand-by | Up to 720 h | | Talk time | Up to 9 h | MISC | Colors | Black, White | | SAR EU | 1.19 W/kg (body) | | Price group | | TESTS | Display | Contrast ratio: 775:1 (nominal) | | Camera | Video |...
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...number of factors pertaining to genetic mapping and testing for future health problems that can create dilemmas for both the patient and the health care providers. There is always uncertainty and numerous variables when genes pose the probability of predisposition to certain diseases. As to the procedure in which this problem is addressed one needs “To uncover the patient’s genetic background.” In cases of certain types of cancer, for example, there are four specific traits that suggest it is a wise course to take upon genetic testing of the patients’ family members. This is possible in 60% to 95% of the families of cancer patients. The predictions of genetic testing can reduce apprehension and uncertainly of the tested patient. This predictive genetic testing can be a stress reduces for those who have a family history of hereditary disease. Profound anxiety may occur when gray shades pertaining to the uncertainty of a gene cells propensity to carry a serious disease exists within the family history. This stressful mental frame of is a dilemma unto itself, so psychological counseling may be necessary for some patients. Psychological counseling may apply for ton’s illnesses such as hunting disease (a neuro degenerative disease) as well as certain hereditary forms of cancer and some hereditary heart diseases. “The psychological counseling should be tailored to the specific characteristics of the disease.” A disease with no known care such as Huntington’s disease needs a different...
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...determine the benefits for in regards to data mining: predictive analytics to understand the behavior of customers, associations discovery in products sold to customers, web mining to discover business intelligence from web customers, and clustering to find related customer information. To understand the behavior of customers by the use predictive analytics we must first understand what predictive analytics is. “Predictive analytics is the process of dealing with a variety of data and applying various mathematical formulas to discover the best decision for a given situation” (ArticleSnatch, 2011). This gives any business a competitive edge and helps to remove the guess work out of the decision making process therefore helping to find the right solution in a shorter amount of time. In order to find the solution faster there are a seven simple steps that must be worked thru first: what is the problem for the company, searching for multiple data resources, take the patterns that are observed from that data, creating a model that contains the problem and the data, categorize the data and find important factors and in turn creating new variables, build a predictive model by using examples, and authorize this model and put it into action. When these steps are followed through with then it makes it easy for businesses to make speedy decisions using the immense amounts of data that they now have. There are multiple benefits of predictive analytics such as: minimizing risk, a decline in...
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...There are several ways that Data-Mining can be used. A useful way is through customer attrition, which includes companies. Companies should have a complete retention strategy, due to gathering new customers is costly. Being able to retain customers during a downfall, when that is happening people are looking for a lower cost alternative. Knowing why a customer is leaving is important. There are customer churn analysis and apprehending methods, and trend analysis. Along with the customer churn profiling. Developing Customer Retention Strategies. Customer Retention is important because getting a new customer is expensive rather than keeping the existing one. Retention is meaningful to most companies because the cost of having new customers is much more than the cost of keeping good relationships with their current customers. How to contain customers during a downfall? During a downfall is the time when people look for a lower cost alternative. In these circumstances, down-selling can be key to retaining customers. When economy overcomes, the customers are likely to move up to the original services they had subscribed too. Down falling is better than losing customers. However that can have negative effects on sales, this should be carried out carefully on customers who are at risk of churning to lower cost alternatives, methods can be used to identify customers at risk of churning. Knowing why a customer leaves. The most important thing in customer retention is to know the customer...
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...| | EDGE | Class 10, 236.8 kbps | | Speed | No | | WLAN | No | | Bluetooth | Yes, v2.1 with A2DP | | USB | Yes, v2.0 | CAMERA | Primary | 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels | | Features | Smile detection | | Video | Yes, QVGA@15fps | | Secondary | No | FEATURES | Messaging | SMS, MMS, Email | | Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML | | Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS | | Games | Yes + downloadable | | GPS | No | | Java | Yes, MIDP 2.0 | | Colors | Jamaican Yellow, Cupid Pink, Minimal White, and Festival Orange; 2 Fashion Jackets | | | - Social networking integration with live updates - MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player - Find Music recognition service - H.263/H.264/MP4/WMV player - Organizer - Voice memo - Predictive text input | BATTERY | | Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh | | Stand-by | Up to 730 h | | Talk time | Up to 9 h | MISC | SAR US | 0.72 W/kg (head) 0.37 W/kg (body) | | SAR EU | 0.75 W/kg (head) | | Price group |...
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...quality to analytics Discussion 2 Analytic Quiz What do beer and business analytics have in common? In 1900 W.S. Gossett, an analyst at Guinness invented a distribution to analyze production processes and employment problems. Guinness decided to keep it a trade secret. He published it under the pseudonym Student. Hence the name of this popular analytic method became Student’s t-test. Analytic Quiz Who made a killing by applying it on a massive scale? 4 Four Types of Analytics Information, Analysis And Decisions: The Basics Diagnostic Analytics Why Did it Happen? Descriptive Analytics What is Happening? Analysis Predictive Analytics What is Likely To Happen? Prescriptive Analytics What Should I Do About It? Information Analytic Excellence Leads to Better Decisions 5 Information Builders’ View The Five Types of Analytics Prescriptive Predictive Skills Levels Discovery Diagnostic Descriptive Value 6 The Five Types of Analytics It is not about more data! It is about deeper look! 100% 13% Core Analytics Advanced Analytics The Five Types of Analytics Descriptive: What Happened? 8 The Five Types of Analytics Descriptive: What Happened? Too many reports in the enterprise Too many ad hoc requests to analysts and IT Why? Once you see, you crave understanding What? leads to Why? Static reports are the primary cause for this. 9 Descriptive Needs To Merge With Diagnostic Information on Demand with Greater Interacttivity 10 The Five Types of Analytics...
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...Business Intelligence-The Next Ruler of IT Monalisa Mishra “In GOD we trust for everything else we need data” -W. Edwards Deming In the present era the old saying has become the buzz of corporate circle and going forward this will be the base principle of decision makers across the world. Welcome to the era of objective thinking powered by technology that has given a new dimension to business and management. With the passage of time more and more companies are coming forward to adopt, improvise and leverage on technology and Business Intelligence has proved to be the flag bearer in this upcoming trend. Business Intelligence, in layman terms, is data converted to information and available in ready to use format that can be further analyzed, modified and transformed as per the changing demand. The industries today are mostly into some or other form of nascent technology that speaks of raw form of information. Basically, these systems are into huge data repository that provides real time information or basics analytic tools that can provide historical analysis. But the future has a lot more to offer. Imagine an automotive plant with fluctuating marketing demand , supply chain constraint and increasing production costs. In such a scenario, we can only expect something beyond human intelligence to give smart solution that approximately optimizes every aspect. Now let us think of a system that is integrated with the production system and marketing technical system. This system...
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...Rolls-Royce: A Manufacturer at Your Service Why can we state that Rolls-Royce has become a service provider? What kind of services do they offer? Rolls-Royce took back control of their after-sales in the late 1990s (because competition led to a drop in margins) and they became a significant source of revenue for the company (63% of total civil aerospace revenues come from aftermarket services). Before that, much of after-sales service had been given to third parties. After-sales is actually a service and that is why we can state that Rolls-Royce has become a service provider. They created a highly customer-centric business model that combined manufacturing and services. The services they offer: * The after-sales services they offered were mainly maintenance contracts based on the concept of ‘Power by the hour’. This means that the customers paid a fixed maintenance fee per aircraft flight hour (i.e. only when the engines are running). For this, Rolls-Royce offered to maintain the engines and replace them if they broke down. The company offered different service packages for different customers: - TotalCare for the civil aerospace business. - CorporateCare for the operators of business jets. - Mission Ready Management Solutions (MRMS) for the defense aerospace business. - Other after-sales programs for its customers in its other businesses like marine propulsion and energy. Rolls-Royce earned the most profits from its services offered to its customers in the...
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...Chapter 5 Types of Maintenance Programs � 5.1 Introduction What is maintenance and why is it performed? Past and current maintenance practices in both the private and government sectors would imply that maintenance is the actions associated with equipment repair after it is broken. The dictionary defines maintenance as follows: “the work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep.” This would imply that maintenance should be actions taken to prevent a device or component from failing or to repair normal equipment degradation experienced with the operation of the device to keep it in proper working order. Unfortunately, data obtained in many studies over the past decade indicates that most private and government facilities do not expend the necessary resources to maintain equipment in proper working order. Rather, they wait for equipment failure to occur and then take whatever actions are necessary to repair or replace the equipment. Nothing lasts forever and all equipment has associated with it some predefined life expectancy or operational life. For example, equipment may be designed to operate at full design load for 5,000 hours and may be designed to go through 15,000 start and stop cycles. The need for maintenance is predicated on actual or impending failure – ideally, maintenance is performed to keep equipment and systems running efficiently for at least design life of the component(s). As such, the practical operation of a component is time-based function. If...
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